From the Trenches World Report

The Oregonian – by Andrew Theen

Oregonians should not be required to prove they are U.S. citizens or legal residents to drive a car.

That’s the premise behind a bill filed in Salem this week by a bipartisan group of state lawmakers. If passed opens the door for non-citizens to obtain legal Oregon driver’s licenses, learner’s permits or general identification cards. It wouldn’t apply to commercial driver’s licenses.   Continue reading “Oregon lawmakers introduce bill to eliminate ‘proof of legal presence’ requirement to get driver’s license”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

The Houston Police Department has a huge problem. A recent no-knock drug raid ended with two “suspects” killed and four officers wounded. The PD says no-knock entrances are safer for officers, not that you’d draw that conclusion from this raid.

The problem the PD has is its drug warriors are dirty. The raid was predicated on a tip from a confidential informant who doesn’t appear to exist. The warrant contained sworn statements about a heroin purchase that never happened and a large quantity of heroin packaged for sale that was not among the things seized from the dead couple’s residence. The heroin central to the raid appears to have been taken from the console of an officer’s squad car and run to the lab for some very unnecessary testing.   Continue reading “FBI, DA’s Office Open Investigation Of Fatal Houston PD Drug Raid”

Big League Politics – by Jose Nino

Gun controllers are re-branding.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the U.S.’s oldest gun control lobby, has changed its name to Brady as part of its rebranding efforts.

The gun control advocacy group announced this new rebranding strategy at an event celebrating the 25^th anniversary of the Brady bill, which laid the first step to creating a federal gun registry.   Continue reading “Gun Control Group Gets a New Disguise”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

It’s no secret that California residents, particularly people residing in the most expensive parts of the state (SoCal, the Bay Area) are fleeing in droves, displaced by expensive rents, sky-high home prices, unbearable traffic congestion and – oh yeah – increasingly deadly wildfires. As a result, California expat communities have sprung up in Texas, Arizona, Idaho and Nevada, sun-belt states where residents can enjoy many of the benefits of California living (namely, the agreeable climate and booming economy) without the downsides.   Continue reading “The California Dream Is In Nevada: Golden State Expats Flock To Las Vegas Suburb”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

Smart assistants like Siri, Google Home, and Amazon Echo could soon be implemented with a “moral AI” to decide whether to report their owners for breaking the law.

Scientists at the University of Bergen, Norway proposed the incredibly Orwellian idea of inserting morals into A.I. code at the ACM conference in Hawaii on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society, Dailymail reported.   Continue reading “Scientists Want Orwellian A.I. Sentient Smart Assistants To Snitch On Owners And Discuss Contacting Police”

Mint Press News – by Whitney Webb

WASHINGTON — The massive purchases of ammo and weapons by non-military federal agencies, like the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Social Security Administration (SSA), that first began under the Obama administration has continued unabated under the Trump administration, while receiving less media coverage.  Continue reading “Non-Military Federal Agencies Under Trump Expand Already Enormous Arsenals”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Three months after Israeli police recommended that the country’s attorney general pursue charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his alleged involvement in “Bezeq Walla Affair”, it appears an indictment is finally being handed down on Thursday, much to the longtime leader’s chagrin.   Continue reading “Israeli Attorney General Indicts Netanyahu On Charges Of Bribery, Fraud & Breach Of Trust”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed legislation Wednesday to abolish his state’s concealed carry permit requirement.

Oklahoma joins Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Vermont as the 15th state to declare the Second Amendment as an individual’s carry permit.  Continue reading “Oklahoma Governor Signs Bill Eliminating Concealed Permit Requirement”

Overdrive – by Max Heine

A recent report on the nation’s worst freight bottlenecks shows not just how much time is wasted at certain urban tarpits, but also how quickly the clogging is progressing. The American Transportation Research Institute study found that in the 10 worst bottlenecks, truck speeds had dropped by an average of nearly 9 percent — in only one year.

So it’s no surprise that talk of a big infrastructure plan is back in the news. The American Trucking Associations’ Transport Topics reported Jan. 3 that Trump and congressional leaders had a consensus to produce an infrastructure bill this year. Trump later included the idea in his State of the Union address, a year after pitching a flawed matching funds proposal that hit a dead-end.   Continue reading “No time left for you: Bottlenecks and detention”

The Jerusalem Post – by Amy Spiro

Sitting before Congress for hours on Wednesday, Michael Cohen accused US President Donald Trump of lying, cheating, and a range of allegedly criminal behavior.

But some people who watched Trump’s former lawyer testify in Congress had their minds focused elsewhere: on a thin, red string bracelet around his left wrist.   Continue reading “Michael Cohen’s Red String Bracelet Draws Attention”

Activist Post – by Tom DeWeese

Sometimes if you fight hard enough and refuse to back down, no matter the odds, your truth is vindicated and prevails!

For twenty years I have been labeled a conspiracy theorist, scaremonger, extremist, dangerous, nut case. I’ve been denied access to stages, major news programs, and awarded tin foil hats. All because I have worked to expose Agenda 21 and its policy of sustainable development as a danger to our property rights, economic system, and culture of freedom.  Continue reading “Green New Deal Reveals the Naked Truth of Agenda 21”

Henry Makow

The Fed is owned by a syndicate of mostly foreign-based Jewish Masons.

They create the medium of exchange (“currency” “credit”) in the form of a debt to themselves, something our government could do debt-and-interest-free. This exceptional 2009 article reveals why economists don’t blow the whistle on this mind-boggling scam.    Continue reading “How Banksters Control the Professions”

MassPrivateI

For years the push to replace physical drivers licenses with digital drivers licenses has relied one one thing; privacy.

But all of the “fake news” the public has been fed about their privacy is about to come “crashing” down, literally.

A Nevada bill if passed would allow police to search everyone’s smartphones.   Continue reading “Digital drivers licenses and smartphones will be searched by police”

Times of Israel

The Trump administration’s much-touted peace plan may include investments of tens of billions of dollars to the Palestinians and other countries in the region, according to a report Wednesday.

The New York Times, citing unidentified analysts with knowledge of the matter, said the funds would include around $25 billion for the West Bank and Gaza and another $40 billion for Israeli neighbors including Egypt, Jordan and possibly Lebanon.   Continue reading “US peace plan said to include $25 billion in West Bank and Gaza investments”

The Organic Prepper – by BCE

Several years ago, I wrote the following for a survival medicine book we had put together. I still think it provides a realistic view of the potential medical environment in a grid down or austere survival situation.   Continue reading “The Grim Reality of Survival Medicine in Austere Conditions”

Big Island Now

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard voted to pass the Bipartisan Background Checks Act (H.R. 8) on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, which would close the “gun show loophole” that currently allows people purchasing firearms through private sales, including gun shows, to forgo a background check. H.R. 8 passed by a vote of 240-190.

“97% of Americans support universal background checks for gun purchases,” said Rep. Gabbard. “The passage of this bipartisan common-sense legislation is long overdue to help save lives and make our communities more safe.”   Continue reading “Rep. Gabbard Votes to Pass Bipartisan Background Checks on Gun Purchases”

Daily Mail

Those who subscribe to outrageous conspiracy theories are more likely to commit low-level crime, a new study has found.

Belief in such ideas – like the theory that Princess Diana was murdered by the British establishment – has often been associated with negative outcomes such as political disengagement, prejudice, and environmental inaction.    Continue reading “Conspiracy theorists are more likely to be criminals and to approve of other forms of anti-social behaviour, study reveals for the first time”